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41 minutes ago, colonizedmind said:

Guys I just dug out one of my Dad's old classical 7" and the B side played for 7mins 15 seconds I timed it. If the vinyl is 33rpm it can hold 7 mins ish...so it could still be a sort of There Was A Time length ish and that be pretty Epic....it has time for a long intro, numerous verses and a long ass solo and coda, so ..

Or it could be around 5 minutes which can feel long, If the song is a slow grinding screaming tune. I want the next Coma as much as the next dude but a great song is more important than length, let's hope for that first and foremost...agreed?

I think 5 or 5:30 minutes could be a perfect length. It obviously depends on the song itself, but you can do a lot in 5 minutes. I'd rather have a tight song that leaves you wanting more, than a song that overstays its' welcome. Not that that has ever been an issue with GnR's epics.

33 minutes ago, Carlson-online said:

They will. It's just they are releasing both on a vinyl together, as vinyl is 2 sided. Hence the G side and the R side ( same happened with the UYI albums..... )

Yeah. The General will probably be marketed as a new single like Perhaps. It's probably a "B-side" on the vinyl just because Perhaps came out first.

Nah. 

Music doesn't need to be "perfect".

I want to hear the wear and tear in singers' voices as they get older. 

3 hours ago, default_ said:

From what I can see regular people are really enjoying the song. Not sure if hardskool would’ve this much praise cause in the end, it just sounds like a washed up hard rock song. Perhaps on the other hand, has that Illusions feel that soccer moms and casuls love and that kind of became a trademark for GNR with NR and Estranged. 

This. 

Hard Skool is a fun ditty, but Perhaps hits you more in the heart. 

It sounds like a modern Illusions-type song, which is more in line with their progression, age and status these days.

It's a song casuals can take seriously, which I think is a major reason why it's been so well recieved 

7 minutes ago, bumbleslash69 said:

Marketing lingo to trick people into thinking it’s new without saying it’s new. What it actually means it’s the first time Axl has recorded and composed music with Slash and Duff in 30 years. Compose doesn’t mean the whole song was built from scratch. It’s a half truth statement. 

Damn, this slaps 

It's very Elton John -esque sounding song.

32 minutes ago, GNR4Ever2024 said:

Listening now sounds good,

A& R: Nick Groff

From hunting ghosts to managing  A&R is certainly a career  choice. 

Ghosts and new Guns N' Roses songs are basically the same thing.

It was nice to hear the song again, but I don't get it why would they premier it on radio and not put an official version on their Youtube, Spotify etc right after that. Now all the news sites reporting this link those poor quality radio rips to their stories  

"Hear a snippet of the new Guns N' Roses song"... it's not 2006 anymore. You don't release songs like this in 2023 

American radio stations really sound like... American radio stations.

Feels like I'm playing GTA Vice City.

14 minutes ago, GoodOlJohnnyK said:

But isn’t that nuts? Obviously this isn’t a Guns management thing, but you’re telling me that on a Saturday, TouchTunes just…shuts down? It’s a service provided to thousands of bars across the US and, apparently, the UK! That’d be like Spotify not answering the phone if they accidentally leaked Perhaps.

Maybe they have only a skeleton crew working on weekends, doing the bare minimum, and they react to these kind of things when they have more personnel? 

2 hours ago, Blackstar said:

https://www.a-4-d.com/t5235-2009-03-02-the-oakland-press-axl-rose-talks-to-gary-graff-about-his-new-album-rumors-and-the-fans

Thanks. That was an interesting read.

This might sound sappy, but after reading that, I wish Axl knows how much people who love Chinese Democracy really love it. It truly is an amazing, one of a kind album.

4 minutes ago, El Guapo said:

Ok, I listened to it a couple of times. It's simply not a good song to my ears and will be quickly forgotten by the general public, imo.

It is not a hit song and the general public won't be swooning over it, but I think it isn't meant to be that kind of a song anyway 

To me it sounds almost like melancholic lounge music, something to listen on a shitty afternoon in an empty bar drinking your third whiskey 

It has a weird mood and I like it.

Amazing 4D viral marketing, Team Brazil! Well done!

Great to see them all smiling. Looks fun enjoying your legacy while still alive 

Honestly I would want all new songs. It would feel more honest and real, I guess.

But that won't happen, so leftovers will have to do. And I'm sure there's great songs there.

If they have pulled all Perhapses (Perhapsies? Perhapsi?) from Youtube and left other leaks, then I guess the song is coming soon. They obviously don't want those demo versions to get mixed up as the official version when casuals search for it 

Really douchey response from Nuno.

But in a way I can kind of see where he is coming from. Sure, Slash can play all kinds of stuff really well and amazingly, but he will always sound like Slash. And in some situations that "Slashness" can be distracting or it can overpower something else in the song.

And it's ironic, because if that's Nuno's argument or reasoning for what he said, then Fortus would probably be a better man for the job than Slash, because Fortus, the amazing guitarist that he is, can sound like a lot of things, because he doesn't have a recognizable signature sound like Slash has 

Different tools (Nuno being the biggest one here) for different jobs.

An all-star blues-oriented solo album from Slash? Count me in! That's pretty damn great news 

I wonder if Steven Tyler is one of the guests, since they were pictured together in the studio a few months ago 

Also, would be cool if there was one red-headed guest singer too 

Maybe we should write some songs and send those to them to record? 

"Axl is sounding great, shows with new deep cuts are being played, fans are happy and eager for new music... We better start fucking things up quick!"

- Team Brazil, probably. 

18 hours ago, Cosmo said:

These "short, fast and crazy" songs are my least favourite of their catalog, not counting My World and Absurd. To me, they feel really dated and not in a good way, I dunno. Love You're Crazy Lies versions, though. Love it.

I used to feel the same, but now I dig these fast songs a lot. They have this cool punk-ish vibe to them. Funnily enough it was Absurd that made me appreciate them more 

They are a fun way to cleanse your palate between the epic ballads and the groovy rockers 

11 minutes ago, Dummy said:

It doesn't look like absurd.

It was really easy to check from Youtube. It is Absurd.